Awards at LEGO conventions aren’t just about luck—they’re about strategy, detail, and a little friendly competition. Discover Casey McCoy’s seven practical tips to taking home a trophy.
Read MoreIt’s 2026! Time for a new year of LEGO contests and more: January 2026 is here and offers great LEGO competitions and challenges. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreToday’s the final boarding call for Nerdvember contest submissions! Get your Vacation Nerdly build or photo submitted before the deadline tonight for a chance to win some awesome LEGO prizes and the Golden Nerdly trophy!
Read MoreWe’ve seen Nerdly traveling near and far, and with two weeks left in our Nerdvember 2025 contest, there’s still time to submit your vacation build or photo before the January 4th deadline to win some awesome prizes!
Read MoreTime for hot cocoa and some LEGO bricks! December 2025 is here and offers great LEGO competitions and challenges. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreWe’ve heard from lots of you that you want to take Nerdly with you when you are actually on vacation for the holidays and New Year’s—so we’re extending our Nerdvember 2025 contest deadline to January 4th.
Read MoreFrom MILS to Micropolis, there are many different themes that have become “standards” in the AFOL community. This extensive article seeks to list and document every LEGO collaboration standard, themed month, recurring contest, and any other coordinated excuse to build.
Read MoreFall is slowly transitioning to winter: November 2025 is here and offers great LEGO competitions and challenges. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreNovember means BrickNerd is celebrating Nerdvember—a month where we are EXCEPTIONALLY nerdy and host a contest to reimagine our mascot Nerdly. This year is vacation-themed, and we have awesome prizes to award in both MOC and photography categories.
Read MoreThe spooky season is upon is, but October 2025 has more great LEGO competitions and challenges to offer than just Halloween ones! Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreWe all love a good online LEGO contest, but how do you run a building contest for a LUG? Michael J. shares his thoughts and experiences of running contests for the last seven years.
Read MoreFrom space ships to pirate ships to friendships, September 2025 has some great LEGO competitions and challenges for builders of all levels. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreBuilders battled through vignettes, mashups, and “what if” scenarios in MELO 2025 making the 2025 Middle Earth LEGO Olympics an epic showdown worthy of Tolkien’s legendarium. Come witness everything this fellowship of LEGO fans created.
Read MoreFrom summer fun to the perfect vacation, August 2025 has some great LEGO competitions and challenges for builders of all levels. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreThe end is here! From skeletal horses to fungal centaurs, Bio-Cup 2025 wraps up with an apocalyptic final round. Saddle up for the final showdown of the Four Horsemen and meet the builder who survived to win.
Read MoreFrom kings made of leaves to music monsters in the club, Bio-Cup 2025’s Round 2 brought a full house. Shuffle through the highlights before the final hand is dealt.
Read MoreFrom Summer Joust to an awesome LEGO Ideas Hobby challenge, July 2025 is packed with LEGO competitions and challenges for builders of all levels. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreBio-Cup 2025’s beastly Round 1 brought mythic dragons, djinn, centaur cowboys and cute gargoyles into the arena. Check out the monsters, mayhem, and magnificent parts usage on display!
Read MoreThe new Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook is out! Today, BrickNerd is bringing you inspiration for your own Lord of the Rings book nook with a couple MOCs inspired by the set!
Read MoreFrom Bio-Cup to the LEGO House, June 2025 is packed with LEGO competitions and challenges for builders of all levels. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and win some awesome LEGO prizes!
Read MoreNovember has arrived with a fresh selection of LEGO contests and challenges. Don’t miss your chance to build a MOC and maybe even win some awesome LEGO prizes. With contests like Brickscalibur and Colossal Castle Contest returning, and new ones popping up, there’s plenty of inspiration to be found!
Self-described Train Nerd, Michael Gale takes us through his process to restore old and tarnished track, in various states of deterioration. Hop aboard, and see what he comes up with, today on BrickNerd!
What is the best way to clean and restore your LEGO 9V track? We take a deep dive into how to maintain, clean and restore your precious track to keep it in as good condition as possible to keep your trains running on schedule!
In the latest installment of our LEGO SNOT series, we explore how thinking in 2×2×2 cubes takes the guesswork out of sideways building. See how a few simple SNOT cubes can help you line up studs in any direction.
There are many acronyms, terms and phrases used to describe various LEGO things within the world of AFOLs. But what about all the made-up words we use every day that don’t make it into a standard glossary? Welcome to the AFOL Slang Dictionary.
No bones about it, BrickNerd fans, we’ve got some interesting connections for you today. Will explores the old LEGO skeleton, digs up several curiosities, and resurrects Belville to tickle your funny bone!
Welcome back to some spooky BrickNerd Quick Builds! We have two treats for you today. The theme for our LEGO instructions is Halloween with witches, spiders, crows and a grave!
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Nerdly desperately needed new glasses and ended up redesigned with a removable lid. So what’s inside Nerdly? This year’s Nerdvember contest gives you three ways to answer, from a tiny build hidden inside to a creation that bursts out of the box.